Week Six of the Russian Intervention in Syria: a first major success for the Syrian armed forces

This column was originally written for the Unz Review:http://www.unz.com/tsaker/week-six-of-the-russian-intervention-in-syria-a-first-major-success-for-the-syrian-armed-forces/

Finally. After weeks of gruelling combat the Syrian armed forces have liberated the Kuweyres air base in northern Syria. This is a huge victory for the Syrians because during the 2,5 year long siege of the airbase it had become an important symbol of the Syrian determination to resist the Takfiris in general and, especially, Daesh which had deployed its best fighters to maintain the siege of the base and prevents its liberation. In fact, the Takfiris did resist with everything they had up to the last moment. For those of you interested in video and photos of the combats and liberation of Kuweyres I would recommend the site of Colonel Cassad and specifically these posts: (in Russian)

Many of these images and videos are for a “mature audience” only, but they do convey the sense of victory for the Syrian side and I highly recommend watching them. Up to this moment all the successes of the Syrian armed forces were limited in importance whereas the liberation of Kuweyres not only represents a huge moral victory for the Syrians, but it also has an “operational significance” meaning that it actually changes the shape and dynamic of the front (click here for a high resolution map of the area). Put simply: the Syrian have now seized the initiative from Daesh and they are now on the offensive. As for Daesh, they now have to allocate their forces to prevent the Syrians from further exploiting their success in Kuweyres. Most observers, including myself, were hoping for, or even expecting, such a development, but now it has finally happened. This is very, very good news.

There was, by the way, an interesting if little noticed side story to this event: according to the Russian military, the “moderate opposition” gave key intelligence to the Russian to target the “terrorists” around the airbase. Here is what RT reported about that:

Syrian government forces received intelligence on terrorist positions around the besieged Kweires airbase from opposition sources, which helped them lift the two-year blockade, the Russian Defense Ministry has revealed. “This airfield had been surrounded by ISIS [the former name of the Islamic State terrorist group] for two years,” Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian defense ministry, said in a daily briefing. “Intelligence on the locations of the terrorist fire positions and support points around Kweires was provided by the Syrian opposition and cleared by the communication center in Baghdad.” Lifting the siege on the airbase in Aleppo provinces has been one of the biggest victories for Damascus since Russia started providing air support for Syrian government forces. The opposition also provided data to help target a big weapons depot of the Nusra Front, the Syrian branch of Al Qaeda, near the village Mheen in the Homs province, Konashenkov revealed.

For one thing, as far as I know, the so-called “moderate opposition” is mostly a myth, and to the degree that it does exist, it is in Turkey and in London. Furthermore, I don’t remember the so-called FSA playing any major role around Kuweyres. So what is going on here?

Well, maybe the Russians just made up this putative intelligence sharing in order to show that they are working hand-in-glove with the “moderate opposition” or, which is far more likely, some folks associated with Daesh felt that the tide was turning and decided to re-brand themselves as “moderates” and gave the Russians some intel in exchange for money and life. This kind of sudden “coat turning” is typical of the Takfiris and the Russians saw plenty of that in Afghanistan. If my guess is correct, then this further goes to show that Daesh is beginning to seriously hurt under the combined effects of the Russian and Syrian offensives. Again, this is very good news indeed.

Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of Hezbollah, also immediately declared that the liberation of the Kuweyres airbase “resilience, strength, determination, and vigor of the soldiers and officers of the Syrian Arab Army”. He is right.

There is no overstating the heroism of the Syrians who fought and refused to surrender even though they had no meds and minimum food and supplies But then, since they would not surrender, their only options were to fight to the end or die. And they fought, alone, for over two years. This is why the first Russian reporter who got into Kuweyres wrote “У сирийцев теперь есть свой Сталинград” (the Syrians now have their own Stalingrad).

Having taken Kuweyres, the Syrian army continued its offensive and, according to the latest reports, the Syrians have no also liberated the towns of al-Hader and al-Heis. Following this latest Syrian victory, a Takfiri commander blamed it on the Russian Air Force and declared“The heavy aerial bombardment of Al Hader and the surrounding area gave us no choice but to retreat, but these are to-and-fro battles, where we win ground one day and the next day we lose it“. Maybe.

Still, it is way too early to celebrate. Following weeks of intense fighting and only tactical victories, the Syrians have now achieved their first operational breakthrough, but they will need several more before they can contemplate a strategic offensive against Daesh. This is something which the USA and, even more so, Turkey and Qatar are going to try to prevent with everything they got. Here again, it is important to repeat, that the very small Russian force in Syria does not have the means to, for example, prevent Turkey from moving its forces into Syria.

At this point in time, I would judge Turkey and Qatar as even more dangerous than the USA. Why? Because they both put way too much prestige and, especially, money into ousting Assad and building a pipeline across Syria to link their two countries and they know that as long as Assad or any other secular regime remains in power in Damascus they can forget about it. In fact, if the Russian-Iranian-Syrian-Iraqi-Hezbollah alliance is successful in flushing out Daesh from Syria, were will all the Takfiri freaks go? The risk here is not only for Turkey, but even for the Saudis!

In contrast, Obama will soon be gone anyway and its not like the USA has a real national strategic interest in Syria (unless you assume that pleasing AIPAC is such a vital goal). Yes, it would be humiliating for the “indispensable nation” to miserably fail only to have a “local power” like Russia brilliantly succeed, but this humiliation can always be blamed on the outgoing Administration and used to get more votes. As for the US “deep state”, it knows that it can work with Assad only because it used to work with him very nicely before it decided to dump him (Assad even tortured “rendered” suspects on behalf of the CIA!). So keeping Assad in power might be humiliating but not much more than all the other humiliation the AngloZionst Empire already had to suffer at the hands of Putin.

Speaking of Putin, he made an important statement this week: while initially Russian officials had declared that the Russian military operations would last approximately 3 months, Putin has now declared that “the duration of stay of our military will be determined solely depending on the time this objective is achieved”. This could indicate a far longer Russian involvement.

I might be mistaken, in fact, I hope that I am, but I don’t see how Daesh could be defeated without an increase of the size of the Russian military force in Syria and, especially, an increase in the number of Iranians supporting the Syrians on the ground. Nobody will be happier than me if I am proven wrong, believe me.

Final event this week: it appears that the Russians are further digging in and that they have now deployed S-400 missile system on their base in Khmeimim. Depending on how you look at it, this either doubles the air defense capabilities of the Russian naval task force off the Syrian coast, or frees the guided missile cruiser Moskva for other tasks. Curiously, Russian officials have denied that S-400s are deployed in Syria. Either way, this is good news as the the deeper the Russian dig in into their positions, the harder it will be to threaten them. All in all, a very good week for the resistance to Empire and there is real possibility that the next couple of weeks will see even bigger progress.

The Saker

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As usual an excellent report on Syria. War is the worst of all options, but I have no doubt that daesh / Isis must be defeated. Their defeat will expose the incessant lies in the western media and the fact that these terrorists have been actively backed by nato Israel us uk Qatar Turkey etc.
the empire must be defeated and the people living in the west must eventually realise that our governments are the bad guys in all of this. We need a “Great Awakening” in the West before it is too late

The Great Awakening won’t happen, and even if it would happen, people would quickly find out that they have zero tools, platforms, weapons, ground to stand on, infrastructures, finances to meaningfully ‘fight back’. They have been completely robbed of everything and dis-enfranchised.

They would soon realize that everything that was dear to their hearts and minds – their democracy, their freedom of speech, their constitution, their legal system that protects the individual, their right of ownership, the money and wealth they own – are all just lies and fictions they have been indoctrinated with long before their minds had the chance to develop the capacity of critical thinking. What a hellish crime.

We collectively have been duped big time!

At this stage in human history our only hope are Russia and the few not completely westernized Nations. Not that they can ‘defeat the empire’ per se, but if they manage to resist assimilation by the Parasite and can prosper out of their own strength, the Empire is destined to crumble under its own absurdity, artificiality, under its very own weight.

U are probably right! Yes we need Russia to act as the only “super-power” interested in the rights of nation states — such as Syria, Libya etc

But we need people in the West to realise the scale of the deception that is foisted on us daily.
For example, in Germany Udo Ulofkotte wrote a book Gekaufte Journalisten Bought Journalists, where he admits that articles he published in his name were written by the security services.

Do you think that the West might use this ‘incident’ (the Paris atrocity) as a lever to transition to the only viable plan to eliminate the spread of these salafist terrorists now that the situation has slipped out the control of the West? —> The only viable plan being the Russian-Syrian plan. That is, to use this incident as a face-saving way of transitioning to official cooperation with Russia?

A sort of last ditch effort to maintain some kind of influence on the outcome now that their intelligence agencies (CIA/MI6) have so thoroughly rodgered-up their own agenda.

Does any one with a functioning brain at this point in time not realize daesh and other takfiri groups are supported by those you mention? Must the defeat and hopefully the annihilation of these savages happen first? The intestinal fortitude to confront the western .01% controlled governments, in the streets if necessary, by the populace is the only means. Negotiating with the elites and their lapdogs is futile. Do you see that happening soon?

Does any one with a functioning brain at this point in time not realize daesh and other takfiri groups are supported by those you mention? Must the defeat and hopefully the annihilation of these savages happen first? The intestinal fortitude to confront the western .01% controlled governments, in the streets if necessary, by the populace is the only means. Negotiating with the elites and their lapdogs is futile. Do you see that happening soon?

Charles, there’s bad news. At Vienna2, it was agreed there’d be ceasefire against all except ISIS. Lavrov’s never ceased to ask for the West to join the fight against ISIS. Now Israel, US & France w/b helping Kurds in what is already well underway– taking over a good part of the North of Syria. Kurds a couple weeks ago began kicking out Arab schoolteachers who don’t speak Kurdish. These are areas in which Kurds have always been a minority.

Other bad news: At Vienna2 head of Syrian National Coalition showed up, invited by Kerry. Lavrov was furious. Nevertheless appears there’s an agreement to negotiate as to who will write the new constitution. (They already HAVE new constitution that’s less than 2 yrs old.

On both counts, looks like Kerry’s trying for partitioning of Syria. Kurds have gone over to the US side.

I’m not so sure you can count the Kurds as fully on the side of US, France, and Turkey. For one, there is the issue of unity. Kurds are spread over four countries, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria, with these groups differing from each other, partly due to these nations intentionally insulating the Kurds from themselves over long periods of time. Even the Kurdish language has differing dialects in the various Kurdish regions. The issue of Kurdistan can unite them, but they are far from a monolithic group. For instance, in Kobani the Turks let eventually let Iraqi Kurds through their lines but not Syrian Kurds.
The point is that the Kurds have and will be opportunistic in their alliances. They may well be on the US ‘side’ at certain times, but don’t put much faith in the longevity of that alliance. Turkey is the linchpin for the Kurds. If there is any whiff of a long-term Turkish incursion into Syria, or another foray into Iraq, they will be right back to being on the ‘other’ side.

Wish the Syrian military and peoples all success. May Almighty give them and their supporters (Russia-Iran-Iraq-Lebanon) strength and resolve to win this war against Wahabi Takfiris (agents of AngloZionist plutocracy who wants to rule the globe) !

However, with the recent Paris shooting-bombing-killing incident, I am very apprehensive that the AngloZionist clique is planning to wreck havoc on Syria-Iraq region and derail the Russian-Iranian act of sanitization ! I will be very happy to see my apprehension as a mistaken understanding.

Part of the script, is my take on it. The Hegemon needs better writers.

And if I may ask an OT question that’s been bothering me for some time: Why do all these ISIS types wear that balaclava face covering? It must be quite uncomfortable, the ME climate being so hot and all.

I can’t help but think that the faces, if exposed, might, in some cases, be identified as CIA, Special Ops or American Military. Would appreciate an opinion on this. Thanks.

I think wearing head and face covering by these killers does evolve from practical reasons [ for example in much of the ME, when winds are blowing strongly, sand gets everywhere] to mind- affect reasons. We in the West perceive seeing a face as openness, honesty. It allows the person(s) we are talking to to “read” our facial tells, saying “Look, I’m not hiding anything from you, and I appreciate you opening yourself to me” It speaks of reassurance.
And this is exactly why any polite person takes their sunglasses off when approached and speaking to someone else – so they can “read” your eyes.
And it is why we so resent the Bur-qua. I know I would not wish to speak to anyone, or interact at all with anyone, unless they were in obvious distress, who kept their face and eyes covered. I find unpleasant to speak to a walking hooded anonymity.
I suspect thats why the aggressors and killers are doing it.

Yes,its become quite the “fad” around the World now.For military and military special forces,SWAT,and other special police and government agents (as well as terrorists).I’m not sure where/when it started.But for the last 5-10 years its been slowly gaining ground.Remember how a year ago almost all the groups in Ukraine were wearing them.I think the idea is if you can’t recognize the face you can’t take vengeance on them.And that they can be used over and over in operations since no one would be able to know who they are.I don’t really like the idea of them.But its become totally standard now.

Trust me on this one if I say it all started with the Israelis. For several years now Palestinians have had to endure their homes bring raided in the middle of the night and their loved ones -including children- being gunned downed or carted off by men in balaclavas.

It goes back even much further than that.Back in the 1970’s and 1980’s (continuing until today as well) the Israelis began to get help from US Zionists in Hollywood to produce pro-Israeli propaganda (they had before also,all those pro-Jewish Biblical movies in the 1950’s and 60’s.But it became large scale in that period).The entertainment industry in the US (and in some other countries as well) has a large Jewish presence.Most of the big companies involved are owned,ran,and staffed by Jews (not an anti-Jewish slur,just a fact).Many of the most famous and popular actors and actresses are Jewish also.I suspect in the range of 20-25% at least.So it wasn’t hard for Israel to get their help for the propaganda campaign.You saw countless “Holocaust” related movies put out.That played on the heartstrings of Western audiences.And they also worked on another genre of film that had an even worse affect.They knew/know that Western males,especially US males.Are addicted to violent action films.So they produced large numbers of them.But they also knew that Americans wouldn’t be excited if the “hero” was an Israeli.So they made the hero always an American.And his getting aid from an Israeli.Putting into the audiences mind that Israel was the US’s “friend” and stalwart “helper”.The “bad guys” were always “Arab Muslims” or “Ruskie’s”.Also putting into the American mind that those were their enemies.And after some “heavy” action showing how “evil” the enemy was.The US and Israeli “good guys” killed the bad guys and “saved” the day.It works like a charm.So they continue with it.Before I “woke-up”,I used to wonder how the plots were always similar in those action movies.And then I noticed that the films were many times produced by Israelis.And began to understand what they were doing.

A list of such movies would be great, if you were inclined to compile one.
Or a partial list. Or a handful of concrete examples.
Re Jewish influence in early film industry (and, I think, tin Pan Alley), wasn’t that one of the central tropes of . . . Was it Doctorow’s Ragtime?

BTW, this is interesting . . . especially for the way it sincerely misses the point that many make:

I may not agree with every observation in your post (simply because I don’t have the background to judge those aspects, I stopped watching most of the garbage Hollywood produced years ago), but I do agree about the disproportional representation of the Jewish socio-ethno group in Hollywood.

Re: “(not an anti-Jewish slur,just a fact).”

You should not ever have to qualify your factual statements. –> that’s part of the conditioning. On the contrary, it is mainstream American Jewish pressure groups that need to be on the defensive regarding this.

Here’s what I learned from Saker and this site:

Don’t restrict your free speech when dealing with provable facts or truth or you enslave yourself.

And here’s some of my own conclusions based on the liberating effect of his behavior and his articles:

Don’t self-censor or you collude in your own loss of freedom.

Call the bluff of anyone that tries to suppress you or terrorize you into silence.

“A Bully is Inherently a coward: act accordingly.”

Just to ground your observations with solid sources here is an open admission in the LA Times by author Joel Stein (Note the Original title, printed copy, was “Is Hollywood Run by Jews? You Bet”, apparently the thought police couldn’t stomach that title, so it was, much later, changed to “Who runs Hollywood? C’mon”).

“An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood” (1989) is a non-fiction book whose topic is the careers of several prominent Jewish movie producers in the early years of Hollywood. Author Neal Gabler focuses on the psychological motivations of these film moguls, arguing that their background as Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe shaped their careers and influenced the movies they made”. @Wikipedia

The book is highly laudative, received many awards, Gabler himself, as one may expect is a Jew himself (“The book was adapted into a documentary movie in 1998, a decade after the book was published. The movie has two titles: Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (original title for A&E) and Hollywood: An Empire of Their Own (title for video/DVD). The documentary won an award for Best Jewish Experience Documentary at the 1998 Jerusalem Film Festival”).

rayman , those fanatics convinced or merely remotely guided when they leave for their LAST mission, never forget their passport.
Seems it will be required to enter Allah´s paradise anyway.
You know, this is just like when you visiting your hated mother-in-law carry your cell phone with your affair lover´s photo and name on the first screen. And leave damn forgettin it on the room table.

It includes analysis of The Guardian and Stratford, nothing new, of the pro-establishment vision.

But also, and here what I want you to watch out, the video recorded by a journalist of Le Monde, who “accidentally” lived in the strategic street facing the back door of Bataclan.

Also includes the impact in Spain and in the end, interesting and different analysis by Manuel Freytas.

What seems to me very odd about this video is that people go out running but at walking speed. I, if I get out of a trap with jihadist groups, would try to beat the world record of 50m, especially if, as claimed by the journalist, there were shooters in the windows of Bataclan giving to this passage, not in vain, he claims to have been injured on one leg.
Then we have that, despite the shooters in the windows, there are people who go out and not only does not flee in terror, but being in the other side of the back door of Bataclan, they repass blithely the door to move to the other side of it (recklessness).
Then there’s the girl hanging on the window, I am surprised for how long hang in there without falling, perhaps a circus athlete? And the girl who tries to help her, who are in no hurry, as if were necessary delay so that everything is filmed? Also, what is the point to be hung there all that time so that someone comes after and helps you….. back inside!
Then the girl whose voice is heard calling for help and talking in the video, ( I do not know if the same hanging ) does anyone notice a hint of fear in her voice?

I agree with your observations there, after having watched the video myself. The girl hanging from the balcony may have had somewhere to stand on. Otherwise, the bizarre lack of urgency among the “victims” seems very suspicious.

It could be as you say but there are simpler explanations. People behave strangely even irrationally in such situations. Panic, terror and confusion make people do strange things. They may not even understand what is happening, or where exactly its happening, only that they have to get away. The girl hanging from the window, simply lacked the arm strength to pull herself up. People may not run away from the scene as quickly as you would expect because they are confused and have probably left friends or family inside. They are unsure whether to return and find their companions or escape alone.

This reminds me of something I read (or heard) long ago. It was the author of “Black Hawk Down” either in the book or an interview. He commented that it was strange that when the US delta force commandos attacked that house in Mogadishu, trying to kill the moderate Somali rebel Mohammed Aideed, the local people ran towards the scene of the firefight not away from it. This he thought was very strange. However if you consider that this was a residential area and these people’s families, children, wives, fathers, mothers etc were there at the scene of the action, it is not so strange that people could come from all around and try to protect or rescue them.

A very surreal scene.
Very difficult to figure out what is going on here.
Weird, to say the least.
The people seem almost to be sleepwalking.
But they also don’t look as though they are “playing” panicked vicitms, because they don’t exactly look panicked. They look extremely confused and irresolute.
Katherine

I think they are definitely confused. You can’t tell that it was a false flag from the behavior of the victims. If the powers that be want to stage a false flag act of terror, its much easier to have a “real” attack with real terrorists, bombs, bullets and victims.

I agree. By now I am less inclined to believe this is a false flag, why? because of all these arrests.
Normally in a false flag, hardly anyone get arrested – all perpetrators are dead. Dead men tell no tales – that’s the typical false flag operations (see Charlie Hebdo incident).

In the 911 ‘event’ there were arrests (Mousaoui -idiot airplane student who only wanted to know how to fly the plane not how to land it – aka complete idiot patsy) and convictions. So that line of reasoning does not hold.

The Kuweyres airbase was surrounded by the FSA for more than an year after which IS captured the FSA positions.. Which might be what was traded to the Russians. From the pictures I saw, the IS fortifications were just dug outs in the desert.. You could not make a ground offensive because of the open terrain and they had SAM’s so helicopters could not land but no major bunker systems around the area. With drones and intel on where IS reserves were located it should have been a simple affair to take them out. IS is pulling out of many places. Or I think the gangs are running off to mommy. The last stance might be because nato has ordered everyone to reinforce their primary defensive positions. There are commanders who are competent enough to carry on fighting even without all the intel and direction of nato space forces. This only means the gangster terrorists who can are running away or going home to merge with the population. Just like the LA riots.. Assad offered amnesty to anyone who surrenders anyway, he needs to remove that stipulation..

Oh I should have added that with the FSA surrounded the base for more than an year, and IS surrounding the base for more than 2 years, it has been surrounded for like 3 and a half years, not two.. Although the FSA did not have SAM’s so helicopters were making food runs and evacuating the injured. Once IS got to the scene they had those 20000 SAM missiles looted from Libya..

Радо Мир
I am absolutely amazed with comment that, (unfortunately anonimous) person yesterday sent to serbian (best on Balcan) newspaper ’Politika’, after Julian Harston article titled ’Marianne’s tears’. (Marianna is symbol of France, just to clarify, R.R.) All I can do is to try to translate as good as I can, and put on the best wall I think I should. The SAKER is exactly the one:

Anonymous:
For what reason the pathos and “great” words are reserved for victims in the countries of so-called – free world only?
And, why ’Marianne’s tears’ have at least a hundredfold media weight in relation to ‘Ajsha-s tears’ in Baghdad, Kandahar, Damascus, Tripoli, wherever such crimes are part of everyday life?
The jihad that frees Afghanistan from the Russians is “good”, but when expelling NATO troops from there becomes “bad jihad”. Why?! The “good one” is when crashes Saddam, Assad or Gaddafi, but “bad” when targets the WTC, or when it crashes or causes an explosions and killings in Europe? Why less odium is towards the “collateral damage” drones at weddings and funerals than by some cartoonist or heavy metal concerts, or Parisian bistros visitors, murderers? John Jihad is greater villain than Brandon Bryant, drone operators – who by his own admission today, ashamed to soul, has “confirmed” in 1626 (not to be confused, exactly onethousandsixhundredtwentysix souls) is. Why?
There is in my soul not a shred of triumph and revenge-seeking, it does not rejoice me nobody’s life violently interrupted was, I only plead referring to the same measure of empathy with all the innocent victims. Because, if selective, it is essentially evil!

She was among the almost-victims of the Aurora shootings, all in tears at Sandy Hook. Then she just barely saved her life at the Boston Marathon bombing, and now, what a poor girl, almost got blown away in Paris again…

SAA/Hez ambush of large column of rodents.. First they set off a daisy chain of claymores that started the ambush and mortars as well as small arms. If nothing else they wont walk along a long column every again in open country.

Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV on Wednesday aired exclusive footage of what it said was an ambush by Syrian troops on rebels south of Damascus, reportedly killing 175 fighters near the Syrian capital. (Feb. 26)

One thing though; its unlikely that Erdogan’s Turkey will enter Syria to directly depose Assad or confront the DAESH. That would be a strategic error unseen since President Bush Jr. entered Afghanistan and the hell his predecessors initially conjured for the Soviets. Somewhere in the Kremlin, old generals must still be laughing in disbelief.

Erdogan’s been doing everything he can to get NATO to impose a safe zone, insisting Turkey can’t do it alone. Its doubtful that any NATO country wants to face another occupation of a Middle Eastern country.

Turkish Intel surely knows what kind of people they are tacitly supporting, and its safe to assume they and the GCC are more than happy to fight DAESH to the last American but little more than that.

Turkish troops are not very good, even against irregular kurd forces. I saw the UN forces and the US gave them excellent for their enthusiasm to fight in asia but they charge like the cavalry and got mowed down by the enemy. Not very effective in battle. I would think even the regular SAA which is not very effective would pulverize the Turkish army if they came face to face, let alone the likes of Syrian special forces. You got to remember, Syria is facing, Israel, SA, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, the US, UK, France amongst others and still stands.. They have directly engaged the best these countries sent. A regular armed force like turkeys would be no match for a battle hardened force. Taking out the advantage of air cover, The kurds would bush wack the Turkish force if they ever get the chance. If erdo thinks that overtly attacking Syria instead of covertly would be more advantageous, he will find the Syrian army in Istanbul and since Turkey attacked Syria, he cant call on article 5.. Maybe Greece will invade turkey as well at the same time. After 5 years any Syrian who could be bribed, scared, bullied and weak kneed have run off leaving a hard bunch.. Even Fisk said that Israel wont be facing Palestinians with old muskets if they invade Syria.. On top of an experienced army, they also get tactical training from the likes of Hezbollah on close quarter combat. For the Saudi’s to invade Syria? That a joke??? The SAA would decisively defeat them in under a month.

Everyone wrote off the Syrian army. Take another look now

the Syrian military, undermanned and undergunned a few months ago, has suddenly moved on to the offensive. Earlier this year, we may remember, this same army was being written off, the Bashar al-Assad government said to be reaching its final days.

Syrian commanders are now setting the coordinates for almost every Russian air strike. They were originally giving between 200 and 400 coordinates a night. Now the figure sometimes reaches 800. Not that the Russians are going after every map reference, of course. The Syrians have found that the Russians do not want to fire at targets in built-up areas; they intend to leave burning hospitals and dead wedding parties to the Americans in Afghanistan. This policy could always change, of course. No air force bombs countries without killing civilians. Nor without crossing other people’s frontiers.

But the Russians are now telling the Turks – and by logical extension, this information must go to the Americans – their flight coordinates. Even more remarkable, they have set up a hotline communications system between their base on the Syrian Mediterranean coast and the Israeli ministry of defence in Tel Aviv. More incredible still is that the Israelis – who have a habit of targeting Syrian and Iranian personnel near the Golan Heights – have suddenly disappeared from the skies. In other words, the Russians are involved in a big operation, not a one-month wonder that is going on in Syria. And it is likely to continue for quite a time.

The Syrians were originally anxious to move back into Palmyra, captured by Isis last May, but the Russians have demonstrated more interest in the Aleppo region, partly because they believe their coastal bases around Lattakia are vulnerable. The Nusra Front has fired several missiles towards Lattakia and Tartous and Moscow has no desire to have its air force targeted on the ground. But the Syrian army is now deploying its four major units – the 1st and 4th Divisions, Republican Guards and Special Forces – on the battle fronts and are moving closer to the Turkish border.

Russian air strikes around the Isis “capital” of Raqqa may or may not be hurting Isis, although the Syrians like to boast that they have plenty of intelligence coming to them from the city. Interesting, if true, because Isis personnel are specialists in torturing to death “agents of the regime” and it would be a brave man to pass on information to Damascus. Yet travellers’ tales can be true. There’s a regular civilian bus route from Raqqa to Damascus – buses have an odd habit of crossing front lines in most civil wars – and if passengers prefer not to talk to journalists, they will talk of what they have seen when they get home.

All this is only the beginning of Mr Putin’s adventure. He is proving to be quite a traveller to the Middle East – and has already made firm friends of another pillar of the region, that President-Field Marshal who scored more than 96 per cent at the polls and who currently rules Egypt. But the Egyptian army, fighting its little war in Sinai, no longer has strategic experience of a major war. Nor, despite their dalliance in the air over Yemen, Libya, Syria and other targets of opportunity, do the present military authorities in Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Jordan have much understanding of how a real war is fought. Libya’s own army is in bits. Iraq’s military has scarcely earned any medals against its Islamist enemies.

But there is one factor which should not be overlooked.

If it wins – and if it holds together and if its manpower, which is admittedly at a low level, can be maintained – then the Syrian military is going to come out of this current war as the most ruthless, battle-trained and battle-hardened Arab army in the entire region. Woe betide any of its neighbours who forget this.

In face of then ISIS massacre of Kobane Kurds, he continued bluntly: “Turkey basically wants to drag NATO into this situation because the actual goal of Turkey is to neutralize Assad…ISIS’s actions and what’s happening to the Kurds are subsidiary…and it has to be clearly said that an ally who behaves like this doesn’t deserve the protection of this alliance, an ally who doesn’t intervene for protection in a such tragic situation doesn’t deserve protection himself.”

On whether Turkey could invoke the mutual defense clause if its military were deployed to Syrian territory to set up a buffer zone, General Kujat said “if Turkish troops were to conduct operations in Syria without Syria’s permission and without a UN mandate and then be attacked this would never amount to a casus foederis (Article 5).”[5]

Moreover, claims that on 10 August Turkish military forces entered the planned zone in Syria along with the Sultan Murat Brigade, which is composed of Turkmens, presents a worrying picture when taken in conjunction with pro-government media that proclaimed Aleppo as the 82nd province of Turkey.[6]

On 5 August Turkish newspaper Takvim featured a map of the buffer zone that includes Aleppo, Idlib and the north of Latakia to be under Turkey’s control as an eventual 82nd province.[7]

Moreover, do they want to be complicit in carving out a safe haven in northwest Syria for Erdogan’s Army of Conquest that consists of militant groups from Central Asia, China and Russia?

1) Syria’s Government controlling the border with Turkey in Lattakia, Idlib and Aleppo, basically controlling the fate of any terrorists or sympathizers in Syria’s northern’s Provinces.

2) Russia’s pay back to Turkey by destroying Turkey’s idea of energy hub…by blocking any chance of success on the Qatar/KSA/Turkey intention of a pipeline through Syria….by shifting Azerbaijan and Georgia away from Turkey….by making EU even more dependant on Russia’s energy supply through North Pipeline 2 through Germany.

3) China’s payback on Turkish interference with Uighurs matter by blocking any attempt of Turkmenistan gas pipeline through Turkey (this is dead now but EU/Turkey pushes hard all the time), China is the nbr 1 customer for Turkmenistan and can and will continue to buy most if not all gas produced there, Russia is also back to business with Turkmenistan after the fall out in relationship back in 2009. Without Qatar and Turkmenistan gas, Turkey can not dream of a major gas hub.

4) Iranians will be in a much stronger position in 2016 (after embargo is mostly gone), Iran will have the chance to go after the two key competitors right away, KSA and Turkey, either to reduce their influence in the ME with profitable business offer to “friendly” countries or even create issues for those two countries to be concerned about internal affairs vs messing out externally, Iran has the means to do it in both countries, financing PKK with weapons and funds and the same with the KSA’s Shia community in NE/East KSA, not to mention Yemen.

Its kind of expected that Western troops would be doing all the heavy lifting (and bleeding) in a Syrian ‘safe zone’. The Germans have every reason to be cautious.

However, at this point, Article 5 would not be about a safe zone in Syria. The moment Turkey crosses the DAESH, the DAESH are possibly going to explode within Turkey itself.

All those foreign fighters pouring in through Turkey, and the Turkish public hardly squeaks. Either they really, really, don’t like Syrians very much, or there is substantial DAESH sympathy within the Turkish population and security establishment. Cells of foreign fighters are already there by default.

The Syrian Arab Army is possibly more accurately the Syrian Allawite Army; what helped them was the various Syrian ethnic militias from the Druze, Assyrians, Palestinians, Shia, the Popular Committees especially, formalized into the National Defense Forces, and outsiders like Hezbollah. The SAA has not so much stood back up, but been propped up. Militias initially held the ground the SAA won, then increasingly, fought alongside the SAA, integrated into the army.

Turkey can’t be unaware of all the plans floating around to redraw the Middle East by sectarian and ethnic rivalries. Maybe they think they are conspiracy theories; but the publicly available maps may influence maps drawn up behind closed doors. Maybe that’s why they are more down on the Kurds than ever; they see Kurdistan appearing before their eyes. Yet Ocalan himself presented his vision of Kurdish nationhood without a state.

Some of those maps require the destabilization of Turkey to carve it up. Yet Erdogan continues to play with matches, thinking somehow there will never be blowback that works for someone else’s antihumanitarian agenda.

The perceived need for balkanization comes down to interpretations of Halford MacKinder’s geopolitics.

The Anglosphere fears and profits off the fear of a united Eurasia forming the basis of a world empire they are not in control of, where the geographic pivot formed by North American Great Plains, becomes second fiddle to a similar construct in Eurasia’s central plain.

“At this point in time, I would judge Turkey and Qatar as even more dangerous than the USA”

In my opinion, the Israeli-Americans won’t confront Russia in Syria directly, but continue to use their colonials, like turkey, and irregulars, like ISIS. This is how they fought the USSR mostly. In fact, I doubt the zionazis will use turkey or Qatar to confront Russia directly, but continue to use the terrorists instead. Using countries risks open war and all the unknowns that would entail. Desperate as the zionazis are, i don’t think they are ready for a Masada last stand – just yet.

Saker,
The Saudi Foreign Minister is talking tough about Riyadh’s intention to continue supporting terrorists in Syria until or unless Assad leaves office.
Russia and its allies must find a “creative” way to ensure that these arrogant asses pay a very steep price for their impudence and brazen support for terror and ensure thst NONE of their goals come to fruition in Syria.
The Saudi Gas Station has overreached itself in Syria and Yemen and utter humiliation should be the cost of its hubris.
Russia and Iran must hold firm and aquiesce to none of their demands, because right now the Kingdom is on the brink of imploding the longer the conflicts in Syria and Yemen drag on……

The kingdom is about to come apart. The rivalries among the loons at the top with shifting policies and alliances with Israel and US, all the while waging an oil glut war and lose of customer base, loss of revenues and expenses of supporting worldwide Wahhabi and ISIS infrastructure and the emergence of Iran will splinter these camel-humpers.

They are a very narrow economy with no hope of winning (defending) any war. They must pay for any ground troops. No nation can stand for long if it depends on its security on mercenaries.

Russia is offering it one last hope. We shall see if the King has any sense of reality.
If he continues to demand Assad’s head, his kingdom will be the first keystone to fall in the ME.

As for Qatar, it is the core of finance and we read the articles of Russian FSB tracking down all the illegal banking operations supporting ISIS. Ivanov and Putin are making the legal case, sending signals to the West that everything will be exposed soon if it continues. And Ivanov has blood in the game with the “drowning death” of his son (a banker) a few years ago in a mysterious death in UAE.

I agree with you. – After the downing of that Russian plane, whoever was ultimately responsible is going to pay and whoever continues to support the Islamists are risking becoming the target of unrelenting focus and prosecution the Russian State.

And let’s not forget something important here, despite the fact that some innocent people may have died in what is looking increasingly like a false-flag in Paris, more people died in on that Russian plane, almost twice as many more. Where’s the Je Suis Metrojet A321 sympathy from the navel gazers in the general population?

The Russian reaction was the correct one: continue ruthlessly undeterred, like a machine, on their current mission while marking down targets for meting out justice for the Metrojet attack at a time and place of Russia’s choosing.

I been saying ever since this price war began that Putin will take the price down to $25 or under. The Saudis wanted like $75 only to hurt the financing so the US shale producers cant grow and hurt iran and Russia a little to show who was boss but that failed and the price went to $50 because Russia started pumping more and more oil and not cut production. Now Iran is getting into it, Once full production starts, Iran will add almost 2 mil barrels into the mix which is already over flowing by 2 mil a day. Once war starts you don’t call it off because of a little pain. There has to be pay back for a lot of things. And viola, Russia is lowering revenue for the 2016 budget from oil revenues, so they expect the price to drop next year when Iran comes to market. Now we hear about sovereign wealth but who’s the sovereign I wonder.. Are they going to use that money to fund a budget deficit or are they going to loot the treasury and run off? Everyone of them have been looting the treasury for the last 50 years. But only recently has the common people seen anything and that also very little. Both Iran and Russia has learnt to live on low oil prices. For Venezuela it is harder but unlike some countries they wont die off with low prices.. A few ATGM’s and money problems and the wheels that’s already coming off might be just dragging in the sand. And all the vultures just waiting in the wings…

Throw into that mix the possibility that Russia has discovered vast new oil and gas deposits in the arctic so it could set prices pretty much at will and have no fear of running dry. The difficulty is not hurting it’s oil producing allies too much.

Have you noticed that in the last decade Russia has gone big time into the oil/gas distribution business.. They want to be the middle man, now held by the likes of chevron, exxon etc.. Except for the US$ petroleum monarchies, the entire world wide distribution is under the Russians. Georgia, Iran, central asia and Russia.. Even south America.. They are moving big time into the Mediterranean for Egypt, Israel, Syria.. Have not heard about Africa since they lost Libya.. With the silk road, this would make for a land based trading block for most of the world. It also means Russia is blocking the middle east distribution system under the US.

On the MSM, I see the most extreme neocons, like Graham talking about invoking article 5 of NATO, installing a safe/ no-fly zone and forming a large (> 10000 ground troups) NATO force.

Does this mean it was a false flag? Perhaps, although it could very well be that the terrorists themselves were not aware of it, and just got training, weapons and instructions handed down. Having observed Charlie Hebdo and Nemtsov, we know the neocon PR machine is always ready.

We all are looking forward to further analysis, and right now I would love to be a (Russian speaking) fly on the Kremlin wall: will Russia be able to stop NATO by enabling the SAA taking the Incirlik corridor east of Aleppo? Can Damascus be defended? If Cerberus starts intensifying bombing eastern Syria, is this territory then lost?

All that is my worry too.If we take the “Great Patriotic War” as a guide .I see Russia and Syria’s current victories as the same as when the nazis were pushed back from their big invasion offensive in early 1942.But then later Hitler went on the offensive again.Which continued until Stalingrad.And from then on (with a few minor setbacks) it was Soviet victory,after Soviet victory ,until the war’s end.The West hasn’t had their second offensive yet.Until Russia can stop that (if they can) we won’t really begin winning.

“This is why the first Russian reporter who got into Kuweyres wrote “У сирийцев теперь есть свой Сталинград” (the Syrians now have their own Stalingrad).”

Taking this comparison further, I would say that this zionazi war on Syria, and their so far successful resistance could represent a sort of “Stalingrad turning point” in the resistance to the zionazi oded yinon plan. Syria is where the zionazis have been stopped and should Syria succeed in defeating the zionazi aggression, it will probably turn the tide against the zionazis throughout the region and see their defeat. Much like with the Soviets going on the offensive and defeating the nazis after Stalingrad. If the zionazis lose in Syria, they lose the initiative and may not be able to recover.

Indeed. US/NATO/Israel are between a rock and a hard place as far as Syria is concerned.

Bombing here a water-tank in Aleppo and there an abandoned house in al-Raqqa is utterly laughable, pathetic. But as desirable a large scale operation in Syria might present itself to feverish minds, couldn’t that be a ‘Russian trap’?

Jet fighters falling out of the sky, very expensive bombers shot down – the risks are enormous and all the advantages are on the Syrian/Russian side.

And how to get the boots on the ground? In Turkey? In miles long convoys through the desert from Iraq to Palmyra…?

And anyway – you can’t defeat the Russians in Syria, for that you have to go Russia.

War is absurd but in the context of patriarchy it is logical and inevitable. Patriarchy is rule by machismo masculinity of either sex.

In the comments a few days ago occurred a phrase I hadn’t seen before: “small penises.” War is a compensation reaction to a dysfunctional penis. All those rockets, missiles, bullets, bombs, drones, tanks and planes are technological extensions of swords, spears and arrows.

In the beginning, our species was in balance, not necessarily equilibrium. The role of men was to support womam and to enhance her pleasure, thereby ensuring his own. Matrons governed with love, not with rules.

Jealous incipient patriarchs upset the balance, beginning with the killing of animals that had blood and eyes like our own. We set foot on the slippery slope of killers rather than the solid ground of lovers.

The never-ending wars of today are the logical result of animal killing, domestication and other forms of animal slavery. We pride ourselves on being the top dog, and so we have become.

We can recover our original purpose but since the social sphere has been overrun by patrix armies it remains for individuals to preserve the original seed until patriarchy itself is overrun and the fertile earth restored.

Then the penis of man will arise where it belongs: within the context of love. Patriarchy with its God awful pyramids of power will be dismantled to make vineyard pathways of peace. Patriarchy will be converted to Loverarchy.

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace” -Jimi Hendrix

“Imperial power has its brief hour but Love lives forever in a house on the heather, holding us together in all kinds of weather.” -thelovegovernment.com

LOL! Where’s zionazi Andrea dworkin when the S.W.A.R.M. needs her shrill calls of male-aphobia to keep women and men at odds with each other (arguably, Jewish feminism has been the most successful of zionazi divide and fool…, er rule strategies) over bogus issues.

Oops, she died of gross obesity several years ago. Those horrid patriarchicals forced her to greedily pig out and eat herself to death!

This assinine patriarchy theme is pathetic: it’s top-down social engineering part of the keep the lower classes divided and in conflict – even at the basic family unit level.

Meanwhile the billionaire and political class that funds these useful idiots (feminists and their well meaning dupes) maintains ‘harems’ of women in traditional roles which includes rearing children in huge extended families.

Wake-up! Don’t try that anti-family western agenda “patriarchy” nonsense in Russia, you’ll get your butt kicked (by women! Long before the men get the chance to do it).

I read your link with interest. Human intelligence is our best asset. Putin and his inner circle seem to have the cutting edge. Let’s hope they don’t succumb to complacency and comfort.

Unfortunately, under the ten-thousand year reign of patriarchy, human intelligence has been subverted by inhumane calculation.

Intelligence that is not governed by love is dangerous. There’s a truth in the Lucifer myth: the most intelligent angel, “light bearer” by name, fell to earth with a thud. A human intelligent knows that God and Lucifer are blood brothers, bound by oath to serve patriarchy.

Know the enemy is the first rule of an intelligence service; and the second is that the enemy is within. Forget this and forget all.

see talk by sheikh imran hossien…. all angels must obey and praie the lord.
therefore, lucifer was not an angel. sheikh thinks he/it was a jinn.
logic. how can angels ‘disobey’ if it is stated they cannot?
just saying…y

It would be fascinating if Sheikh Hossien would give a lecture on djinn. There are good djinn and bad djinn, and they have free will like human beings do. You can make deals with them. They love to make deals. But beware, because they can be capricious and they like to be the boss, and if you piss them off, you will pay a price.

So keeping Assad in power might be humiliating but not much more than all the other humiliation the AngloZionst Empire already had to suffer at the hands of Putin.

The best line in the entire article. I was laughing so hard I “redded” out and had to scrape myself off the floor.

When people say Cameron’s full of sh–, it’s literally the truth: that swine hybrid pervert hasn’t been able to use the can for 10 weeks thanks to Putin.

Regarding the so-called “moderate-opposition” (semantics between what the West means and what Russia means?), no I’m afraid they do exist, localized, in isolated pockets of their hometowns and in smaller numbers than the externally run Islamist groups. These are the groups of localized amateur armed rebels that were duped into rising up; I’ve seen plenty of Syrian Army videos of their very brave and unarmed negotiators going up to them in various battles to convince them to give up with a promise of rehabilitation. No Islamist would ever give-up to these negotiators nor miss an opportunity to shoot the negotiators, but local misled groups have given up and taken up the government offer.

In addition, I’ve seen an ex-Syrian General, on RT, who heads an armed opposition group also admitting he was in talks with Russia to cooperate (an individual who clearly gave the impression that he regretted defecting). I don’t think the Russian military is lying, I think they’re tell the truth. It would make sense that the locals would give away ISIL positions.

The idea of local opposition groups turning towards the Russians is going to cause real ulcers, constipation and panic among the terrorist sponsoring “Assad must go!” crowd.

Re the S-400 system, where’s the proof that it’s an S-400? Russia is adamant that it is not an S-400. Are they just splitting hairs? Is it a highly upgraded S-300? It is some other designation of air-defense system that is equally effective? This is a question an experienced expert in Russian military hardware needs to examine and analyze.

According to a news item many months ago early 2015, hell, Russia was to have the S-500s in place & operational surrounding Moscow by summer 2015, a few months ago.
That one, if it exists, would never be allowed for export.

Why is there no local (Moscow) cellphone footage of these if they’re there. It’s like the Paris Fri 13th same thing….huge crowds including a filled stadium & no one caught what was going on?
What about anyone wearing Google glasses, too?

The S400 has 2 barrel longer range missiles.. The picture shows 4 barrels of the S300.. This is the special S300 version for export to Iran and Syria. They only have range of 100km and not 250km. But this is the same as the anty 2500 I think.. If you look on Wikipedia you have like 40 variants, depending on the equipment and missiles. You want S400, you just add more and more stuff.. The 3 radar stations we saw can pinpoint any object, speed and height. Remember the BUK system needed 2 radar placed far away to direct the missiles towards the plane, this can do it from a single location. That square specialized radar can track stealth objects,, Which was the S400’s selling point. Also S400 can track 100 objects, S300 it is like 32 or something??

In related news:
According to Press TV -Today-, Nov. 15, 2015, Turkey cancels Chinese HQ-9 (S-300 look-a-like) air defense systems, a $3.X Billion contract. BTW it looks like an S-300 because the Russian’s helped/technology-transfer with the TEL design, prior to that the system looked like a Patriot system with Square launch tubes at a shallow angle (it also contains patriot FCR & Search Targeting Radar technology that the Chinese acquired thru Israel, Israel denies it so I guess we should believe them – they always tell the truth).

Personally I can’t see how a successful sale would have been good for China, it’s more like Erdogan’s gang spying on the capabilities of the Chinese system. Selling this system to a government that’s funding Uigur terrorists (see Saker’s col cassad pics and you’ll see hard evidence of a dead Uigur terrorist at Kweiris, AFB) is non-sensicle.

Erdo has been playing everyone. Especially Russia and China.. It was very suspicious they talked about getting Chinese weapons. This was just to gain the capabilities of such a system and to string the Chinese along. Just like the turk stream. Russia has down graded Turk stream and placed major restrictions on trade. A Putin trademark is, they offer generous partnerships at first.. You take it and you are very well off.. If you double cross them they offer less and less as time passes.. I highly doubt that Turkish distribution system will come into play, they will be just another marginal player in the field. On the other hand look how compliant Israel has become. Russia is placing the latest weapons in Syria yet Israel makes no sound. You are looking at some serious problems for Israel with the TOS, TOR and MLRS and other weapons. I am very sure that the systems Russia is moving to Syria will be left there to be operated by the SAA once Russia is done. Hence why no S400.. But this S350 is close.. Except for the long range it is just as powerful against a much smaller airforce… For some reason Russia is punishing Egypt as well.. We will find out why later on. It makes me think Egyptian intelligence is under nato control and Russia wants Sisi to clean house.

Paul Craig Roberts is reporting:
“… from European security that there was a massive cyber attack on French systems 48 hours prior to and during the Paris attacks. Amongest other things, the attack took down the French mobile data network and blinded police surveilance The attack was not a straightforward DDOS attack but a sophisticated attack that targeted a weakness in infrastructure hardware.
Such an attack is beyond the capability of most organizations and requires capability that is unlikely to be in ISIL’s arsenal. An attack on this scale is difficult to pull off without authorities getting wind of it. The coordination required suggests state involvement.”

Not even well known journalists who have been field proven can get away from these so called self anointed experts. Just amazing.. These self appointed executioners know it all and can make the case for anything and everything. Makes you wonder about Putin saying having oat meal for brains. Why the Syrian air force want to use an improvised chemical explosive which is not very effective except as a terror weapon is not explained.. Ofcourse the butcher Assad did it.. And if they can tar and feather someone who has decades of investigative experience as not being a good journalist or reliable contacts well what can you say about these waanabe self proclaimed journalistic integrity watchdogs of the western world.. Wonder if Jeff lives in tel aviv..
When people give links.. They use crap like this to prove their points as if because it is found on the net and has a slick write up with pictures makes it valid reference instead of the tabloid crappola it is.

Just a whole bunch of Assad did it all.. Barrel bombs, Carrel chemical bombs and improvised flying explosives..

I don’t know if he lives in Israel.But by his name there are high odds he’s Jewish.While not “proof” he is a Zionist (some Jews are very anti-Zionist).Its similar though,to what in the US would be know as “profiling”.

Brown Moses was exposed as a disinformation agent of the zionazis/nazis quite some time ago. I can’t recall his actual name atm, but his name is used as running joke in exampling zionazi disinformation actors. Much in the same way that zio-monkey in the UK who pretends to be the voice of “Syrian resistance”.

These vile creatures are all over the net. Many of them do it to make money off the idiots. some spend a lot of effort into it. I saw one about the Russians in Ukraine which had thousands of photos and tracking information of vehicles.. It almost had me convinced. I do not believe there was much Russian weapons in Ukraine. But I do believe Russia provided some fire control and tactical assistance and advisors and real time intel. Except for some small amount of specialized weapons, the E.Ukrainians already had everything, especially from those who defected. Putin had a free hand to provide weapons to Syria and even paid contracts yet he never gave them advanced weapons until the US broke the rules. I doubt he would have done differently in Ukraine. If the US had provided lethal aide like the TOW missiles they gave the Syrian terrorists, I believe Putin would have provided equal equipment. Even when Turkey invaded and then provided artillery strikes for IS to capture towns close to Turkey Putin stayed out. Just saw that some of the have latest French ATGM’s and SAM’s.. IS has ‘some’ which can take out passenger jets at 30,000 feet.. Those old Libyan manpads are only good for like 15,000 feet.. Those 2 equipment must be why Putin decided to intervene. If those get out, it would cause a real problem in not only Ukraine but Russia as well as China and India. Terrorists with equipment that can take out any last generation tank or plane of any military in the world..

A little bit off topic but I just read on Sputnik news the following :

“Tax Breaks for Firms Employing Migrants to Ease Refugee Crisis”

Apparently this will be among “solutions” discussed at the G20 meeting to help solve the refugee crisis. Let us say for instance this particular option is adopted, with firms going for the tax breaks and upping their migrant employee quota at the expense of the native work force this is hardly going to make for good race relations is it ?
Likewise in Germany where long time residents of public housing are being asked to vacate their homes so refugees can be housed in them, they couldn’t come up with better policies to stir racial tensions and hatred if they tried, which leads me to think this is perhaps their unspoken objective.
Get the people at each others throats and they will be too busy to notice the parasites bleeding them dry.

Funny how they seem to have a penchant for dressing in womens clothes. Someone else who has a fetish for cross dressing isnt a million milez away from them, Israeli defence forces have also been known on numerous occasions to dress up as women, connection there perhaps.

@”There was, by the way, an interesting if little noticed side story to this event: according to the Russian military, the “moderate opposition” gave key intelligence to the Russian to target the “terrorists” around the airbase. Here is what RT reported about that:

Uncle Bob 1 and I noticed it!!!
we speculated that perhaps some groups had decided to get on the winning side now, to have a seat at some later negotiating table. The Saker’s supposition that this was a trade of info for life and a one-way ticket out of Syria is probably closer to the mark.
Katherine

The article focuses on the question whether the Israeli air attack on Syria was in some way coordinated with Russia. They claim that that is improbable and that instead it was a sign that the Israeli Electronic Warfare is likely still superior to the Russian one.

Did the Israeli air force use electronic warfare measures to jam the tracking systems installed in Russian spy planes and air defense missile systems in Syria?
DEBKAfile’s military sources have this answer: Israel and Russia have been conducting a clandestine electronic contest for 33 years, since the memorable episode in 1982, when the Israeli air force destroyed in a single strike the entire Russian air defense missile system installed in Syria.
Since then, the Russians have worked hard to develop electronic warfare measures for gaining on the Israeli edge, without much success.
This was strikingly demonstrated in September 2007, when the Russian-made electronic tracking and warfare systems, which were the backbone of Syria air defense missile batteries, missed the Israeli warplanes as they came in to bomb the North Korean-built Iranian-Syrian plutonium reactor going up in northern Syria.
This lapse may have recurred in the case of the Israeli air sorties Saturday.

Given that the Israeli airstrike has been a point of discussion here I thought this viewpoint shouldn’t be ignored.

With the attacks in Paris things will get interesting. Will France/NATO launch a ground offensive in Syria? This creates a real minefield for Russia. Putin will really have to be on his best game. These attacks may be used (intended?) to force through a UNSC resolution authorizing the use of force in Syria. Russia would find it very difficult if not impossible to oppose such a resolution especially if it is supported at the G20 this week. Once such a resolution is adopted, it opens the way for a Libya style scenario in Syria.

Syria would not give permission for an invasion and Russia has veto.
If NATO invades, against international law, then Russia can defend and destroy those invading forces.The blame for such a battle would be NATO’s, and Russia would be forced into it, and chances are China would also be forced to get involved with such an existential threat — WW3 beginning or not. The empire can not be prevented from starting WW3 if it chooses to, but such actions would bring a definitive response and it would be destroyed. (and likely so would most life on the planet.)

@blue the point of a terror attack such as this (and the attendant global wave of revulsion and sympathy) is to paint Russia into a corner. A “foot in door” strategy can then be used at the UNSC. A fairly tame sounding resolution can be introduced i.e ground forces/ no fly zone in parts of Syria with ISIS, just as the no fly zone in Libya. Russia would find it very hard, from a diplomatic and public relations stand point to veto that resolution. If it does anyway further terror attacks can be blamed on it.
Putin is clearly smarter than Obama,Hollande and co but this is a tricky one for him. Russia is not militarily capable of defeating a determined NATO in Syria. So what would happen then is, well, anyone’s guess. WW3 perhaps.

Iran holds the balance of power here. If things go buggy at the UN, then Iran will put boots on the ground. Lots of them. And by now, Iran has a faster rapid deployment force than the United States. They are very sophisticated, those Iranians. They have seen it all, and they have not been idle since the first Gulf War. Then Dubya really f**d things up by destroying Iraq. Iran has been laughing ever since, even with their 1.5 billion of assets frozen. Even with that.

Russia doesn’t have to defeat NATO in Syria — just stop it from being effective and going without losses which will get the NATO countries’ people riled up. A key point is that anything not authorized by the Syrian government is an invasion and violation of sovereignty, which in itself is contrary to the UN charter and international law. If a burglar just forces open my front door and stands in the doorway that’s still break and entry, trespassing, and maybe home invasion, and justifies my shooting him in self defense.

The empire can dissemble as it likes but no one who matters will be fooled by it, least of all Russia and allies, who I can’t see backing down.

What you’re saying is we will see soon in Syria a Libya redux 3 years on, where the first-rate fifth columnist saboteur otherwise known as Putin’s trusty sidekick will allow the resolution to pass unanimously by voting for it, then whine shortly after about how TF was he to know they (NATO) would enact it so broadly & liberally!

The deal originally raised eyebrows among other NATO members, which complained that the defense apparatus would lack the qualities enabling it to work in tandem with other such systems in the Western military alliance.

What are you talking about? The story implies the exact opposite of what you’re conveying.

It’s Turkey that canceled the contract, it was China that was trying to sell Turkey an air-defense system (i.e. helping the snakish Erdogan get an air-defense shield), that hardly would be helping Russia or Syria.

Now that Turkey has canceled the contract unilaterally, that’s good, the last thing we need is for Islamist snakes like Erdogan’s gang getting hi-technology transfer. China made that idiotic mistake once – transferring the designs to a nuclear bomb to Islamist-riddled Pakistan (something they regret today), it would be good if they don’t repeat similar mistakes again.

Excellent analysis including some very important tidbits of information.

If the SAA achieved victory partially due to intel from (formerly?) UK and Turkey backed ‘rebels,’ it suggests the strong possibility of an alliance to destroy Daesh including all parties except Israel, Gladio-NATO and a dwindling number of GCC princes.

Now, especially after Paris, all participants have a renewed sense of the importance of destroying ISIS once and for all.

If the theory is correct, Hollande just got bitch slapped for his failure to dance to Netanyahu’s tune. The meeting with Rouhani is cancelled for the moment but the French President has shown his hand and the deep state, nowhere stronger than in France, is pissing itself in fear.

Slowly but surely the most psychotic deep state crimminals are being isolated thanks to Vladimir Vladimirovic Putin’s unrivalled cunning.

BREAKING NEWS: 10 fighters of the French Army have dropped 20 bombs on the enclave of ISIS, Raqqa, incidentally destroying some infrastructure such as schools and hospitals.

They seem to have gone there like elephants in a China shop, without considering collateral damage as make the Russians, and, of course, skipping the Syrian sovereignty and international law.

As stated by Dagmar in his article, any excuse is good to break the laws. If we let it go now justifying it by what happened in Paris, then it will be justified for anything, even to go against the citizens themselves. Remember what happened to those who fight in Novorussia. They, those in the government, simply will label you as a terrorist and you will be wiped out with no chance to speak.

Just watch the swine in the MSM use the clips of the French indiscriminate bombings of civilian infrastructure in Raqqa and blame it on Russia and Assad – a la George Orwell’s 1984 – accuse the enemy of the crimes you have committed.

People you do realize that the Western MSM is shameless and criminal enough to do that? Anyone willing to bet money that they won’t? Any takers?

By far the worst among the MSM is the BBC.
It is 2nd to none in justfying the numerous crimes of the Empire, while pretending to be objective and neutral.
They have a knack for using terms selectively – REGIME used to describe Iranian and Syrian governments- to demonise those opposed to the Empire and they only interview those whose point of view cast the Empire and its goals in a good light . A recent example is of interviews aired of Syrian Refugees somewhere in Europe and all of them were blaming Assad. Go figure.
Thankfully, RT and PRESS TV are now here to add some balance and expose them and their shoddiness.

Israeli naval commandos killed nine Turkish peace activists, including one with dual American citizenship, and injured dozens more on board the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara in 2010
A Spanish court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior Israeli officials for their role in the 2010 attack on the Freedom Flotilla heading to Gaza, local media reported on Friday.

Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights said that the Supreme Court in Madrid ordered the arrest of ex-foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman, ex-defence minister Ehud Barak, the then-deputy prime ministers Moshe Ya’alon and Eli Yishai, and former state minister Benny Begin, as well as Netanyahu. It also ordered the arrest of Israeli Navy Commander Eliezer Marom, who is among the co-defendants found guilty by the Spanish judge.

Also Read: Is the Mavi Marmara trial political expediency or a real quest for justice?

According to YaniSafak website, [ http://www.yenisafak.com/en/world/spanish-court-issues-arrest-warrant-for-israeli-pm-netanyahu-2340611 ]
the investigation into this case was launched after Spanish activists on board the main vessel in the flotilla, the Turkish-registered Mavi Marmara, filed a criminal complaint against Israeli officials involved in the raid. YaniSafak said that in June a Spanish court dropped a five-year-old investigation into the raid, but it left open the possibility that the case could be reopened if the specified Israeli officials visited Spain.

Although the case was sent to the Supreme Court, continuous Israeli pressure slowed down the investigations. Nevertheless, said the news website, the judge has sent the list of defendants to the Spanish police, demanding the start of the legal process to issue a red notice for their arrest.

Israeli naval commandos killed nine Turkish peace activists, including one with dual American citizenship, and injured dozens more on board the Gaza-bound Mavi Marmara. Spanish activists also took part in the flotilla, which was attempting to break Israel’s illegal blockade of the territory.

“We consider it to be a provocation. We are working with the Spanish authorities to get it canceled. We hope it will be over soon,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon said.
Mavi Marmara

Turkish vessel ‘Mavi Marmara’. (photo credit:REUTERS)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and seven other former and current government officials may be at risk of arrest if they step foot on Spanish soil over the 2010 Mavi Marmara flotilla affair after a judge drew up warrants at the end of last week.

[…]

In response to the judge’s order, Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nachshon said Saturday night, “We consider it to be a provocation. We are working with the Spanish authorities to get it canceled. We hope it will be over soon.”

The Prime Minister’s Office and the Justice Ministry had not responded by press time.
[…]

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said an official document on redesigning the country’s heavy-water reactor in Arak is going to be endorsed by the whole parties to a final agreement on Tehran’s nuclear program by Monday.

The official document on redesigning Arak reactor is going to foreign ministers of Iran and the Group 5+1 (Russia, China, the US, Britain, France and Germany) for signature, Araqchi told reporters in Vienna.

Ret. Major General Spider Marks suggested on CNN today that the US and Russia should come together on the war against ISIS. This is not the first professional military man who is not a knee-jerk ideologue who is suggesting this.

The last 24 hours, a realization in the US military-Intel (retired) community is that Russia is needed to defeat terrorism.

I suspect that the sense of mortal danger coming onto the shores via a porous border and the madness of Obama to bring in refugees by the thousands has focused the minds of the professionals.

It is obvious that ISIS must be crushed immediately, in situ in Syria and Iraq.

Whether that happens or not is not yet clear. But the tone of urgency is building.

All it would take is for five or six of the terrorists to walk onto a major college or university campus at the hour of class changes, thousands of targets would be walking from one building and classroom to another, out in the open, easily slaughtered.

It is the softest target with the largest population. Imagine UCLA, Royce Hall. It would make Paris look like Charlie’s office.

The authorities are frightened. And the Elites are stoned on their ideology of political correctness.

After his main point about Marks on CNN, which I found useful, Red Ryder said “Climate Change is…… our greatest threat.”

Don’t believe it so easily.

Empire is a greater threat, and mankind’s evolution to higher and higher modes of production is very good, and not at all threatening, except to the continued exploitation of humanity by that Empire. Twisted logic and use of rigged computer climate models that come nowhere near to reality (an Empire trick) to try to end that upward evolution do not have a good effect on the rationality or culture of the human species, to put it very mildly.

In fact at the bottom of the Empire quest for Full Spectrum Dominance you’ll find a Malthusian drive to radically reduce world population to 1 billion humans or less, and the false premises of the Climate Change movement dovetail nicely into that objective. .

When we observe people here or in Russia, or anywhere, for that matter, line up with Obomber and the Empire version of Climate Science, the recognition of the existence of a vulnerable flank wide open to Empire exploitation and subversion should begin to dawn on the observer, because, as uncomfortable as this assertion may be, that’s what you have.

But otherwise, any sanity from the US military in terms of cooperation with Russia on terrorism is always welcome, I agree. Americans needs to understand what they have allowed to be done, by their elites, in using these scorpions, and no longer allow it to be done. Those elites threaten ordinary Americans in a multiple of ways. Russia would be an ally if not for them. Many sense this, but too few are crystal clear on this most urgent realization.

You nailed it – a bulls-eye. (Please use a user name, your post was really good)

Just a few points to buttress your post:

– It was Russian hackers (government/Intelligence agency hackers) that exposed the pre-meditated cooking of numbers by Slimebag British University “Climate-change” “experts” that was happening on a large scale as part of the climate change fraud & fear mongering. It was called climategate, of course they had lots of fake inquiries and blue-ribbon panels to whitewash the very damning emails where these prostitute-british-scientists were laughing & joking to each other about how they were cooking the numbers. You’ll notice that the shills that claim to exonerate the fraudulent scientists are establishments based in the US & UK.

– One of the parts of the agenda is impose an energy tax on the entire planet – especially emerging markets India, China & Russia (the largest petro producer on the planet).

– If it’s coming out of the mouth of the Anglo-empire pathologically lying elite, it’s probably a lie (Just sayin!).

-You’ll notice that despite their climate change rhetoric, none of the principal pushers of restrictions on carbon emissions have ever tried to shutdown the largest contributor of energy waste (and therefore Carbon emission), which is the distorted global finance fiat currency system that encourages food to be grown and shipped on another continent to your local market, instead of encouraging, far more efficient and lower energy cost local food production. The same goes for local manufacturing for low cost consumables.

-These parasites want to create a permanent state of artificial scarcity and high energy costs.

We hear too that Baghdad had supplied intelligence pointing to heightened risk of terrorist actions in France (reported today on R T).

* * *

This article (2007) details a major shift to Israeli-French military cooperation at that time. Its main mover was a former French militant who was ‘sanitized’ through a CIA front ‘institute’ to allow entry to mainstream politics.

He became the Chief of Staff of Telecommunications responsible for state tendering and security.

Novelli is his name.

PCR’s claim that a flaw in the infrastructure allowed for the security blackout and was therefore not likely to be within the capability of non-state actors is ominous:

Apparently. things are getting more complicated. Russian Information Agency reports at 23:51 on Sunday, 15 November 2015: French air force struck a massive blow against IS in Syria.

PARIS, 15 Nov — RIA Novosti. French air force dealt a massive blow on positions of “Islamic State” (IS) in their “capital” the al-Raqqah city in Syria, said a statement of the French Ministry of Defence.

According to the Ministry, the strike destroyed the command post and a training camp of the IS.
…
According to the Ministry, the operation involved 10 fighter jets, which dropped 20 bombs.
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Where does this leave Russians? They are now joined by some un-invited guests…

Just bull.. Where would they get the intelligence to bomb? They have no contact with the Syrian government. Training camp could be the football stadium. And the command post was the people in the VIP booth watching the game.

France is the biggest open supporter of terrorists, they supplied latest SAM and ATGM’s to terrorists and were at the forefront of bombing Libya. They are going to bomb their boyz? They want to get in bed with weapons sales to the middle east.

Meaning, that the French either did not bomb the IS, or that they did but were ineffective? In either case, what are your actual sources – or is this merely your conjecture? RIA and all other Russian (and Western) media quote the French defense ministry. If the French are lying it should be quickly verifiable – at least by the Russian military, who must be aware of all that transpires there.

Almost certainly complete fairy tale BS floated by the obnoxious vainglorious frenchies, desperately searching for their mythical 6th Republic, evoking dim memories of similar real history where Monty Python went searching for the Holy Grail, only to find killer rabbits.

Like that PR news story floated a few days ago by the glorious righteous yanks about how they & the Kurds stormed & took that Iraqi town Hawija? to go after & throw out them ISISers, which they have been called out on as liars these many months.

Nursa is a state department front and IS is a CIA front, both run under the Turkish intelligence.. You really think Turkey would allow France to bomb their command? Over 5000 sorties and not one single IS position was bombed. Russia bombed 2000 positions and the terrorists are decimated and now hold onto large pockets. SAA ready to cut off Allepo from the Turkish captured city of Idlib where Turkish artillery was used to drive away SAA from that city. Bombing any terrorists in Syria would only help the SAA defeat them faster and cut off supply lines. Do you have any proof that nato has stopped supporting terrorists not only in Syria but anywhere in the entire world?

ICARDA farms north of Kuweires airbase was completely taken, increasing the protection ring on the air base. RuAF severely bombed the Taftanaz heli air base in Idlib, just 11 kms from the ICARDA base by the M5, Few villages and hills taken in NE Lattakia, slowly but steady progress there, inching closer to surround Salma and reaching M4 near Turkish border. The airbase in Marj Al Sultan is under SAA control the SAA can now storm several cities in the center of East Ghouta from there. Jordan seems to be out of this as no bombing there and the FSA in control are staying low. Maybe they decided to live and fight another day. Unlike the north where nato and turkey are still providing massive aid to the terrorists. Which is soon to be cut off..

Yes, this is good! But it would be even better if Russia helped to liberate Novorossia all the way from Charkov to Odessa and all land east of the Dnepr river first. That is the main frontline! Syria is secondary.

Don’t know where my previous comment went but here’s a quote from The Daily Beast on Israeli electronic warfare techniques:

” For example, Israel has developed a
weapon capable of mimicking a
maintenance cellphone signal that
commands a cell network to “sleep,”
effectively stopping transmissions,
officials confirmed. The Israelis also have
jammers capable of creating interference
within Iran’s emergency frequencies for
first responders.”

Article (2007) on Herve Novelli who was French Chief of Staff of Telecommunications at the time. He was involved in promoting closer Israeli-French military cooperation, and was originally a far-right militant before being recycled through a CIA front ‘institute’ for entry into mainstream politics.

He became the CEO of a business managing intelligence on behalf of transnationals.

Given the virtually simultaneous attack on HZB in Beirut, I wonder if the perps – at least one of whom had travelled to Syria (a French citizen) – had been involved with al-Nusra? And we all know whose proxy they are…

Does Syrian Intel have any info on this?

Would that be a partial explanation for Hollande’s otherwise utterly irrational declaration that it was an ‘act of war’?

Tony Cartalucci always has a strong mind on cutting through the propaganda. One of his strengths is he analyses the psychopaths’ own documents (especially from Brookings), and keeps hammering the same important points, returning to them again and again. As he pointed, out the terrorists are close to having their supply lines from Turkey cut off, so there a certain desperation creeping into the western deep state.

Most people, although not the posters on the Saker blog, quickly forget, if they ever knew or gave it a moments thought in the fist place, that the entire rise of Muslim fanaticism in the past 50 years or so has two roots: the ongoing theft of Palestinian land and “ethnic cleansing” by Jewish settlers from Europe, Russia, and the USA, and more recently and on a much larger scale, the deliberate promotion of Islamic Terrorism by the US CIA in partnership with Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Pakistan.

The latter “project” was the brainchild of Zbigniew Brzezinski, a ‘National Security Advisor’ working for several US Presidents including Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, both Bushes, and currently Obama, who, in conjunction with then US CIA chief George Bush, developed a plan in the late 1970s to attack the USSR by promoting armed Islamic extremism in it’s southern predominately Muslim provinces, and in conjunction with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, to arm and fund Muslim extremists in Afghanistan who were opposed to the education and emancipation of women being carried on by the left-leaning secular Afghan government. To this end they used people like Osama Bin Laden to set up an armed insurrection based in Pakistan and trained, paid, and armed over 100,000 “Mujahideen” Muslim fanatics, equipping them with anti-aircraft missiles, plastic explosives, anti-tank rockets, and various other sophisticated weapons to attack Afghan schools, power stations, bridges, and government offices. The aim was to draw the Soviet Union into the war to support the embattled Afghan government, and to then portray the Soviet “invasion” as a fight between Islam and Communism, and use that to undercut support for the USSR in the Arab world, and stir up trouble in the Muslim provinces of the USSR.

This was later developed into a tool to destabilize the governments of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Syria, and Lebanon as the US poured money and “advisors” into creating and supporting Muslim extremist groups in every Middle East country they wished to attack by starting civil wars in them. The policy continues to this day as the US Air Force airdrops weapons to various terrorist groups in Syria like the Al Nusra Front (Al Qaeda in Syria) whom they are supposedly fighting.

There is an interesting photo on the front page of the Iranian news agency FARS today showing a US Apache helicopter providing air cover to an ISIL convoy in northern Syria to prevent the Russian air force from attacking it.

Far from fighting ISIL (ISIS), the US created, armed, and funds it as a means of attacking Syria, Iran, and Russia, which has a large Muslim population in it’s southern provinces, and even China, which has a Muslim minority in the north-west of the country that has carried out terrorist attacks in a number of Chinese cities.

The Americans are particularly upset at Putin right now because the Russian air force has effectively blown their cover by pounding ISIL and Al Nusra command centres, munition depots, and convoys in Syria like the one above 24/7, forcing the US to demand that Russia stop attacking the very “terrorists” the US itself pretends to be fighting, and to openly aid the “terrorists” by protecting ISIL convoys and air dropping supplies to them. The utter hypocrisy of the US demanding that Britain, Germany, and France join them in bombing “ISIS targets” while simultaneously demanding that Russia stop bombing “ISIS targets” is readily apparent to even the dimmest lights, and a real PR problem for the State Department propaganda shows.

Like most other posters here, I don’t for a moment believe that the attack on Russian Olympic sports, the probably False Flag attack in Paris, and the US threats against China in the South China Sea are three unrelated events. They are just 3 different lines of attack orchestrated by the US ruling class and more particularly, the “deep state” hidden government in it’s drive to maintain and expand world hegemony.

The timing of this operational breakthrough by Syrian Army and other events happening in parallel such as takeover of Sinjar by Barzani’s Kurds and the Paris terror attack is very conspicuous.

If we try to answer Cui bono for Paris attacks, the major benefactor appears to be the French Government itself rather than ISIL. What does ISIL achieve from it? I am unable to think of any major logical goal that could rationalise such a complex and highly skilled operation.
On the other hand the French Govt could gain many benefits such as ;
1) Use it to further restrict and remove any civil liberties left for the general public.
2) General Hollande gets a chance to play the tough guy who’s gonna smoke the terrorist rats out of their holes in a Bush-like fashion and in doing so, secure public support and advantage over his main rival, Le Pen.
3) Close its borders( which it has already done) and refuse further entry to immigrants.
4) This is probably the most important one. Despite repeated calls by French for a no-fly zone and their failed desire to re-establish their writ in Syria, they had been unsuccessful to gain any meaningful traction so far but this could change soon. With the Russian presence in the coastline and around Damascus and advance on Aleppo, it is possible that the Anglo-zionists are switching to plan B considering that they asked the Kurds to advance on Raqqa but met with reluctance and resistance. Could it be that the French would oblige by providing the boots on the ground for operation on Raqqa and Eastern Syria? This could allow them to eliminate ISIL by either destroying them or even easier by re-branding them as moderate rebels of FSA variety. After all how easy it is to distinguish between the two? I mean the beard length is not quite useful for this purpose, is it?
This, in long run could help the empire in restricting Russian and Syrian success to a specific geographical zone, leaving the East and South of country to them and their FSA partners.

Overall, the events are happening at an astonishing pace and I hope the Russians and Iranians are a step ahead of their partners. Otherwise, the Empire still might succeed in breaking up Syria which appears to me as the main objective. Russia and/or Iran would probably have to provide more boots on the ground in Syria to deny the Hegemon.

I agree with a lot of what you’ve written, but regarding boots on the ground: the French don’t have the logistics capacity to pull it off in the timeframe your scenario envisages. France, like Britain is close to a minor military power by now.

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If you go down in the woods today, you’d better go in disguise;
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So are there S-400s in Syria or not? This blog and elsewhere for about a week informed us about S-400s being deployed in Syria, now some folks say they aren’t? And the official Russian word is that they don’t have them there? This half assed game both sides are playing is exactly what can lead to misinformation, miscalculation, and bang a wider war. I am no longer on the BRIC and Putin bandwagon as such. Remember Orwell’s 1984 and the movie The Watchmen? In 1984 you have global war, where the frontlines hardly move and there really aren’t any major battles, much like the “liquid” warfare we have had in the last 20+ years. The whole thing is to legitimize tyranny at home, a police state. In The Watchmen, the Cold War is really starting to heat up in a fictional 1985, with Nixon and Kissinger still in charge, and Afghanistan is really heating up. The US is threatening nuclear war as a result. The genius head of the Watchmen is the world’s smartest(and richest) man and comes up with a rather horrific way to end the upcoming nuke fest by actually destroying many cities around the globe with an alternative energy source and blaming Dr. Manhattan, a godlike superhero(and fellow Watchman) for it, thus getting the two sides together to fight a rather obscure enemy. What is my point with this analogy? Simple, there is no opposition to the Empire, just two sides of the same coin. How can China be in opposition to the West, when it relies on us to buy their cheap crap/ Why is GM about to import a Chinese made vehicle into the US? Why is China and its currency about to join the IMF basket of currencies? Why is the World Bank active in Moscow? Why did China try and sell some missiles to a NATO nation? The whole concept of the BRICS is mostly a myth, but it is nice propaganda for the people of the West to lap up and feel threatened by it. Putin is following our government’s post 9/11 playbook on a watered down scale, but it is still similar. The guy has Russians loving him, even while their standard of living is going into the crapper. China is in it for itself and doesn’t give a damn about Russia and vice versa. China is just salivating for the day it can take back E Siberia from a demographically dying Russia, as it is already happening. I hope am wrong, but with China not really backing Russia or Assad, and if it is true that there are no S-400s are in Syria, how can one really take all of this stuff seriously?

If this attack was a false flag, so far I have been unable to figure out the purpose. There is as yet nothing in the current responses to explain the purpose of this “false flag”. The only thing I can think of, and it still has to play out/confirmed, would be to use this as a way /excuse to STOP ACCEPTING refugees. Perhaps as soon as tomorrow Merkel will announce that she has changed her mind about accepting refugees ?

Alan, I think you will find Webster Tarpley’s video address to the French nation of interest. https://youtu.be/Z3oPVxJxky0 Although he asserts his own world leading role in the area of identifying false flag terror events for decades, he has a different thesis about Paris 11/13/15.

I found that thesis different and quite persuasive: Basically, if I may paraphrase, Paris was a desperate lashing out by ISIS in an attempt to regain prestige with crude, unsophisticated abandon, against almost random “soft” targets because ISIS is critically wounded, in Syria. A horrifying, desperate rampage but hardly sophisticated. So, quite possibly NOT a false flag, this time.

How should France, its people, the nation, respond? “Simple: Abandon the absurd “Assad must go” mantra of the French,US and British governments, and cut the ISIS supply lines into Syria through Turkey.”

Most of the Syria/Turkish border their supply lines pass through has been sealed by the Kurds. The ONLY serious response now, by France would be to support the closing of the Jarablus- Afrin gap which is still open, and Finish the Job in a matter of weeks. Over the howls of the Saudis and the Turks, John Kerry and David Cameron.

She was among the almost-victims of the Aurora shootings, all in tears at Sandy Hook. Then she just barely saved her life at the Boston Marathon bombing, and now, what a poor girl, almost got blown away in Paris again…

Thanks, Jack. Good points by zweistein, and you as well. Very murky, very suspicious. No disrespect to Tarpley or alan, but the picture remains so disturbingly incomplete, that even if ISIS has lashed out in Paris on Friday, as Tarpley suggests, there is every indication of such overwhelming spin control by the Empire for their purposes, not his. Much as I would like to see his vision of the 100% sealing of Syria’s northern border realized, no media spin congruent with that objective is even remotely in evidence, as yet.. Per your referenced headline in Britain this morning, the opposite is being pushed.

Assad MUST GO.. or the 20 billion $$$’s spent to build the largest oil and gas pipeline to turkey would have been futile. Many heads will roll.. It is not a lot of money considering.. But the lost revenues is in the TRILLIONS.. With the biggest gains for Russia and Iran.. Russia has taken on the risk of WW3, not for peanuts.. There is the future of the entire world under their finger tips. Lose Syria and they lost all leverage in Europe.. Iran is contained and sooner or later Russia is also contained. The stakes are so high it is like the industrial revolution changing the world system. The US only loses some influence.. Others stand to lose everything. Erdo just threw his future to the wind. A statesman he is not..

I think the article and commenters here were pretty clear as to motives of why this is either a pure false flag or an attack they deliberately let thru:

to strip away the further liberties of their population under the guise of security, to keep the nationalist National Front frim gaining power, to make a last ditched effort to become relevant in the mid east with the French government attempts to unseat Assad having failed so badly and French influence having become totally marginalized: to achieve this via a fake war effort involving backing from EU/NATO., and finally, possibly trying to find a face saving way to link up with and influence Russia’s success in Syria.

Those are potential motives, some of which we’re already starting to see play out:

According to RT:
The French govt. was warned by Iraq (twice) about an attack on the Bataclan theatre. AND about a planned attack on the stadium.

They had all the their emergency services (SAMU, ambulance, hospitals, police, etc.) pre-staged by the morning of Nov.13th and ready to go into action for 24hrs, -What a coincidence!

They were able to raid 120 homes in 24 hrs and find hundreds of AK-47s, grenades, and even a rocket launcher- gee so quickly? You’d think they knew exactly where to look.

More & more inconsistencies keep getting revealed.

The hijacked French govt were the most vociferous in their attacks on the Syrian govt, they were the most radical out of the West in overtly, not covertly, supplying weapons to Syrian terrorists. They were the most permissive in allowing “French” Salafists to travel to Syria. They were the loudest and uncompromising of the “Assad must go” crowd of fanatical idiots.

So yes it does point to that bastard Hollande’s and his paymasters connivance.

Something I’ve been watching in the periphery of military operations is the jawboning of the politicians about resolving Syria crisis.
Those involved in the so-called peace talks on Syria were told by UN Secretary General, under no uncertain terms, it was hands off Assad, but two weeks later and they are still talking about what or who should replace him. As Lavrov pointed out to Saudi minister, “who gave Saudi rights to decide for the Syrian on Assad?” and since they don’t have nor was it granted to them, then they should be still about Assad and let the elections decide. Keep in mind that during last election, there was estimated 93% turnout, 85% in favor of Assad. Now, either democracy works in Syria, as demonstrated by the Syrians, or it does not. And who is to say, one way or the other about it anyway? I understand the frustration of Lavrov’s position when it seems that no matter how many times it has to be said, there are still those who are talking about pushing forward with removing Assad from power. To that, I have to ask why? What has he done to any of them; what has he really done to the Syrian peoples. There are plenty of damning condemnations of Assad, in fact they are reiterated every day of the week, but few if any of them have sufficient evidence to back them up and it turns out that 99% of what the rumor mill puts out about Assad are fabricated lies, they have been refuted many times, but still the lies are repeated and testimonials are dismissed as “propaganda” from Assad puppets. So, whose word will you go with, that of a Syrian citizen, or that of a divisive Soros NGO?

SOTT Exclusive: ‘Multi-site attack exercise’ held same day as Paris terror attacks
Eerily reminiscent of the simultaneous military and first responder drills taking place during the 9/11 attacks and the London 7/7 bombings, it has emerged that a “multi-site attack exercise” was being carried out in Paris on the same day as the multiple coordinated terror attacks.

This is the news I’ve been waiting for (if it proves true). A modus operandi of a western false flag is “the exercise” that takes place at the same time. Then the “exercise” goes live. Many observers of the 9-11 attacks, Boston bombing, etc have noticed this recurring pattern.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Barack Obama held a meeting on the sideline of the G-20 summit currently being held in Antalya, Turkey, during which they discussed the situation in Syria and in Ukraine.

And why is that necessary in Europe? – Because much worse may be coming. People may wake up, take to the streets, making implementation of dictatorial measures more complicated, like the secretly negotiated TTIP (Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Pact) – which would turn Europe into a wasteland of educated serfs for the corporate and financial elite, directed by Zionist-Washington, surveyed and enforced by its army and NATO. A European Patriot Act might prevent such troubles.

A huge motive for this being a scheduled FF turned live from an exercise like 91101 is that there was to be that huge int’l climate change conference in Paris Nov 30, which may or may not be cancelled, but of course business is business & with a trillion $ jackpot to divvy up they will likely just hold it in secret with zero public allowed in or or near.

Certainly under their proud police state there will be no public protest permit issued.
Keep an ear out for any change on this!

French attacking Raqqa full on. Seems the French gov just realised ISIS is a terrorist organisation and not a moderate opposition group.
I guess they still consider al Qaeda a moderate opposition group?
Like lighting a fire to burn your neighbour out and the fire burns your own house.

Forced to comment although it is against my instincts for self-preservation. RT headlines tonight, “French jets drop 20 bombs in massive anti-ISIS raid in Syria” “It struck dozen’s of targets”. Good grief…let me see 20 into 24 = .8333. So each bomb split into a little bit less than 7/8 of itself unless there was more than two dozen…Impressive technology. MIRV I assume.

I hope this is sarcasm on the part of RT. I would hate to think they have sold out.

From what we see in the news stories, the French are going to use this attack as an excuse to impose a police state inside France.The entire West appears daily to be moving to “security state dictatorships”.Israel and the US have shown the World how to do that without the sheeple even objecting (effectually objecting).By making it appear that it’s for the protection of their citizens,instead of to control them.I remember right after 9/11 the US MSM was talking approvingly of how the US needed to become like Israel,with massive internal security control.And I was thinking then that would mean the end of any freedom in the US.And how that was the wrong move.Now I see the same thing spreading Worldwide,and especially in the EU.In the past that was known as a dictatorship,and people abhorred them.Nowadays it is accepted as the “new normal” throughout the West.Without the people even realizing what is happening to them.Unless the people of the World unite against the empire.then humanity in the West is lost.One more reason we need to support Russia and the multi-polar World.

Why is Osama not saying anything about Elephant guns? Basically a barrel that fires 400-500lbs cans of explosives to like over there some where… No strategic value as it has an error of couple of miles and might even blow up in your face so it is fired with a timer. A true terror weapon as it can only be aimed at north south eat and west like rummy would say.

When Putin arrived for the G20 meeting he pretended it was 2 hot & took off his jacket, then put it back on unbuttoned when meeting Tayyip, an insult for Turks.

Erdogan’s latest massacre in Idlib. #FuahKafraya
Shall we just carry on pretending that nothing happened?

Erdogan failed to get YPG YPJ included on the list of terrorist organisations – USA, Russia, EU – no-one will buy his shtick.

The so call moderate rebels break the cease fire and bombarded with elephant cannons the 30,000 civilians in Shia city of Fuah-Kafraya..

This photo report comes straight from the Novosibirsk SU-34 production line. These are the newest SU-34, which is called 4+ generation jet. 20 Photos from the factory…

NATO calls these bomber jet planes “Fullback”. It can hit both ground based and naval targets.

So with all those talk about Syria and the bombings done by the Russian air force, let’s take a look how the most advanced and powerful jets are made. 57,000 parts are used to build one plane. People working here get approx. $800 a month.

there are only 73 such birds in Russian Air Force now. Some of them are now doing their job in Syria. We’ve seen some photos from this facility already, however one of our favorite bloggers, Slava, has taken some more really awesome photos of the facilities and the planes. Let’s see what the new SU-34 looks like:

Army women’s battalion of the Syrian army on positions in the area of Darius

In the state-run Syrian troops, there is a special women’s battalion. He is perhaps one of the youngest in the world: Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has permitted women volunteers to join the army only in 2013, trying to keep the number of armed forces in the country. To join the ranks of the armed forces of Syria can only the most loyal to the current regime of the citizen. Now in the battalion, which was called “the Lioness of defense”, there are about 800 people. — Sniper rifles, machine guns and missiles, and the main task is to patrol major cities (particularly Damascus) and to be at checkpoints. As the Syrian “lioness” handy with a gun

For the last two days in Northern Iraq near the town of Sinjar freed from ISIS, were found three mass graves of Yezidi Kurds. In total, found the remains of at least 190 people, reports Euronews.

Dozens of militants of the terrorist group “Islamic state” were caught beneath Aleppo, Syria, when he tried to seep through the posts of the government army, reports RIA Novosti. According to the Iranian Agency Fars, masking the terrorists dressed in women’s clothes, and the most talented even did makeup.

12-13.11.2015 Russian map of the liberation of Syria, As you can see, the FSA areas are now almost all gone with just small pockets Allepo is almost surrounded..

Saker, can you comment on the most recent Israeli penetration of and bombing of Syrian territory, seemingly under the nose of Russian air defenses? The rumor is that Russian weapons systems were targeted. I haven’t seen any response at all from anyone on this and its almost like everyone wants to pretend it didn’t happen.

The idea of annexing Syrian territory has long been pushed by Turkey since the beginning of the Syrian conflict more than four years ago. Hawkish pundits and politicians in Washington have also been advocating safe zones or no-fly zones in Syria. But up to now, the Obama administration has baulked at that intervention owing to perceived military risks of large-scale commitment.

According to Erdogan, the White House seems to be finally warming to the idea of annexing Syrian territory. That concurs with the apparent U-turn by the Obama administration to put boots on the ground with the dispatch of special forces and the promise of more troops, as indicated by Carter. The stated purpose of these troops being sent to organise anti-IS local forces among Kurdish and Syrian Arab does not hold water. A recent report by the New York Times admitted that this local Kurd-Arab coalition was an American «invention» that «existed in name only».

Look to who will benefit from these attacks.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey have put enormous amounts of money into allowing Daesh to flourish in Syria in the hope that the government of Bashar al-Assad will fall and thus be able to do their miserable pipeline deal and gain easy access of gas and oil towards Europe.
The air strikes by the French armed forces as with the rest of the “Western” coalition have been halfhearted and inefficient over the past 12 months against Daesh seemingly in the hope that time would see an end to the Syrian state while the coalition would have appeared to have done their politically-correct part.
If we suppose that Qatar and Saudi Arabia might like a more pro-active response from the virulently anti B.al-Assad France to stack the deck in their favor – not necessarily in Daesh’s favor but for the Gulf states ultimate goal – we can easily imagine how they might have encouraged certain elements of Daesh at their purse strings to undertake these heinous acts; to provoke a reaction tending toward intervention of French forces. After all, the dwindling Laurent Fabius has been one of the most agressive prosecutors of military action in Syria against the B. al-Assad government to the point of openly applauding the successes of Jabhat al-Nusra (al-Qaeda).
The heartbreaking irony of this is that Qatar and Saudi Arabia have been courted lavishly by successive French governments which now seems to have been a tragic strategic error.
As always these errors have not touched the elite – ordinary French people have paid the cost of their government serving interests that are not theirs; albeit by lack of vision.The same story in Syria where a foreign campaign of monumental proportions has ignored that by these acts of war and terrorism, the ordinary people of Syria would be in living hell for the last four years or by the same that the ordinary Libyans have been disenfranchised and diminished to insecurity, degredation and squalor since 2011 (Laurent Fabius, Bernard Kouchner*, David Cameron and Bernard-Henri Levy merci !)
François Hollande and his staff should resign and call for a general election and retire from political life. Nicholas Sarkozy should do the same.

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